Arc 2The Gambling House Game

An Ying and the others survived the Gambling House’s deadly card games while uncovering a casino’s crimes and confronting the Weird master. The survivors emerged onto a trapped daytime street, where Bai Yang reunited with them as Lin Nieran prepared new resources for his organization.

  • Bai Yang unleashed his giant rabbit against Moonlit Night, but crimson chains from the moon restrained it, and Bai Yang shrank it away.
  • An Ying and his companions entered separate game rooms, where they searched for cards and fought Weirds under deadly rules.
  • An Ying collected cards and survived the first rounds of High Card, while players who cheated or lost their only cards died.
  • Bai Yang sent his giant rabbit to swallow the blood moon, and Moonlit Night shattered the moon and took a silver joker card.
  • Flower Language killed the game’s host NPCs, and An Ying’s group discussed how the Weirds might represent victims and others tied to the underground casino’s crimes.
  • Moonlit Night gave An Ying a battered rabbit and cards, and An Ying accused the Weird master of cheating during their decisive match.
  • The Weird master attacked after refusing An Ying’s accusation, but the survivors were transported to the dungeon’s daytime street, where they learned escape was impossible.
  • An Ying reunited with Bai Yang and Tao Yuan on the street, while Lin Nieran sent Moonlit Night to hunt Weirds and bought items for his organization.
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Ch. 26The Puppeteer's Rabbit

Bai Yang unleashed his rabbit uncanny object after Moonlit Night attacked it, and the giant rabbit wrecked the casino and nearby buildings. The moon’s chains restrained the rabbit, which Bai Yang then made disappear, while he and Moonlit Night recognized the moon’s intervention.

  • Moonlit Night slashed Bai Yang’s rabbit, and Bai Yang threatened him before restoring the doll and ordering it to attack.
  • The rabbit grew enormous, tore through the casino, and terrified survivors across the instance, including San Shen.
  • Bai Yang rode atop the rabbit as it fought Moonlit Night and demolished nearby buildings, forcing Sheng Qingqiao, An Ying, and Tao Yuan to flee.
  • Crimson chains appeared from the rubble and bound the rabbit’s paws, revealing the moon’s power had intervened.
  • Bai Yang and Moonlit Night recognized the moon’s involvement, and Bai Yang shrank the rabbit until it vanished.

Ch. 27The Rules of Gambling House · Spring

After Bai Yang and Moonlit Night disappeared, Qin Rang’s group found the Gambling House · Spring rules and discussed the pair’s power while authorities began investigating them. Bai Yang and Moonlit Night rested elsewhere, and Bai Yang sent Moonlit Night to follow the group and keep them alive.

  • Qin Rang’s group searched the rubble for Bai Yang and Moonlit Night, then Tao Yuan found a sheet listing four rules for Gambling House · Spring.
  • Qin Rang, Tao Yuan, Sheng Qingqiao, and An Ying examined the rules and wondered about Bai Yang and Moonlit Night’s abilities and relationship.
  • Viewers reacted in shock to Bai Yang’s enormous rabbit, while the authorities ordered Xiao Wu to investigate the two men, the rabbit uncanny, and the tattoo.
  • Bai Yang and Moonlit Night rested in a separate house after their fight, and Bai Yang told Moonlit Night to follow Qin Rang’s group and make sure they did not die.
  • Moonlit Night warned Bai Yang that the instance’s energy was dangerous, then criticized the system for the rabbit’s short-lived power.

Ch. 28The temporary system shop

Lin Nieran opened the temporary system shop after his Fame exceeded 10,000 and bought a Parasitic Spirit (Wrath) for Bai Yang to use. He found a discounted Dimensional Territory he wanted but lacked the points to afford it, so he began recycling strange objects and planned to have Moonlit Night kill more strange entities.

  • Lin Nieran opened the temporary system shop and bought the Parasitic Spirit (Wrath), which he sent to Bai Yang through a card.
  • Bai Yang used the Parasitic Spirit and cleared 007's name, while 007 explained that the moon's rule would restrain Bai Yang only temporarily.
  • Moonlit Night left to kill more strange entities at Bai Yang's request, while Lin Nieran examined the shop's discounted products.
  • Lin Nieran decided the Dimensional Territory would make an ideal hidden base for his organization, but its 100,000-point price was far beyond his balance.
  • After 007 suggested recycling strange objects, Lin Nieran exchanged a battered straw sandal, a Silent Radio, and a little yellow flower for a total of 3,800 points.

Ch. 29The Gambling Game

Lin Nieran drew several items from the card pool, including a B-rank Specter identity card that he activated and named Flower Language. Meanwhile, Moonlit Night and Tao Yuan’s group learned that the gambling house’s top floor was likely the arena where gambling was permitted, as a new game began.

  • Lin Nieran spent Fame on card draws, received a B-rank Specter identity card, and activated it as Flower Language.
  • Moonlit Night continued through the street, noted the cards dropped by strangenesses, and saw a notice announcing the end of the first manhunt round and the start of a gambling game.
  • Tao Yuan showed Qin Rang the flyer’s promise of a grand prize and connected it to the gambling house’s conflicting rules about gambling.
  • An Ying reasoned that gambling was allowed only in a particular context, likely the game arena on the top floor.
  • Tao Yuan’s group recalled surviving repeated encounters with strangenesses and finding that Gambling House · Spring had risen beneath the moon again.

Ch. 30Game Room No. 2

The group returned to Gambling House · Spring and climbed to the top floor, where they had to choose one of four game rooms. An Ying entered Game Room No. 2, High or Low, and found himself in a luxurious hall filled with masked servers.

  • The group debated how to obtain gambling money, and Tao Yuan suggested using chips or playing cards dropped by weird creatures.
  • Old Man Xun revealed that a second batch of players had entered the instance and warned that a third batch might already have arrived.
  • The group reached the top floor as registration for the first round of gambling began and discovered four game rooms.
  • Sheng Qingqiao sensed danger behind every door, so An Ying chose the nearest one, Game Room No. 2.
  • The room automatically deducted 100 chips for An Ying's ticket and pulled him inside, where he found an opulent hall with masked servers.

Ch. 31Game Room No. 1

An Ying entered Game Room No. 2, where Moonlit Night claimed he had been ordered to protect him and warned that he would die without help. Meanwhile, Sheng Qingqiao entered Game Room No. 1 and recognized a sane eerie being beneath its guillotine.

  • An Ying received incomplete rules from attendant 004 and waited for the remaining players at door No. 2.
  • An Ying spotted Moonlit Night on the second floor and confronted him about Bai Yang.
  • Moonlit Night said he was there to protect An Ying, revealed that An Ying's teammates had entered separate doors, and warned that he had seen An Ying's death in the future.
  • Sheng Qingqiao entered Game Room No. 1, where a guillotine triggered his instincts and visions of his own death.
  • Sheng Qingqiao noticed a woman in a bloodstained white dress beneath the guillotine and realized she was a sane eerie being.

Ch. 32The first half of the game

An Ying exchanged information about the Weirds and their rules with a woman from Gambling House · Autumn before the game entrances closed. The game room then began its first half, requiring every guest to find a playing card within twenty-four hours, while An Ying already held the eight of hearts.

  • An Ying learned from a woman from Gambling House · Autumn that other gambling houses had similar rules and that different Weirds could appear when rules were broken.
  • An Ying and the woman traded information about the Hearts, Diamonds, and Spades Weirds, and discussed how playing cards might determine who survived.
  • The woman warned An Ying that her team would fight him if they met as enemies in the next round, then left for the upper floors.
  • When the countdown ended, Weirds appeared outside the game rooms, and a suited NPC announced the rules of Game Room No. 2.
  • The NPC explained that guests had twenty-four hours to find a playing card before the card-comparison half of the game; the highest-ranking card would earn its holder safe passage.
  • The guests began searching for cards, while An Ying stayed behind, confident because he already had the eight of hearts.

Ch. 33Nearly Caught by a Dirty Trick

An Ying searched for playing cards when the second round of the survival hunt began, forcing him to flee three Weirds alone. Moonlit Night killed several Weirds and narrowly avoided a deadly card trap, while An Ying kept dodging attacks and carried a wounded woman through the chaos.

  • An Ying found no cards in several rooms, then saw two teams fighting over a four of clubs on the fifth floor.
  • The second round began, and three Weirds appeared on the sixth floor; An Ying fled while another team faced them.
  • Moonlit Night killed the spiked hammer Weird repeatedly until it dropped a king monster card, then collected a seven of hearts and narrowly avoided a rule hidden in the five of spades.
  • People trapped in a gathering place realized Weirds had surrounded them, while An Ying darted through the sixth floor and stairs to evade attacks.
  • An Ying grabbed a woman who ran out after him, dodged a spiked hammer, and threw her several meters away from the attack.

Ch. 34[Eye]

An Ying used the anomalous [Eye] to stop three anomalies and protect a woman who had been targeted by them. After the woman escaped, he let [Eye] devour two immobilized anomalies and picked up the playing cards it spat out.

  • An Ying slapped a woman to keep her from looking at the black-dressed anomaly, then used his bamboo umbrella to weaken its influence over her.
  • An Ying awakened [Eye], whose eyeballs stopped most living beings who looked at it, and ordered the woman to close her eyes and flee.
  • The woman attached a withered creature’s foot to her leg, grew a third leg, and ran ahead as the hammer-wielding anomaly chased her.
  • An Ying stayed behind and ordered [Eye] to eat the black-dressed anomaly and the anomaly with the long tongue.
  • [Eye] swallowed both anomalies, spat out the five of hearts and six of clubs, and retracted into An Ying’s brain.

Ch. 35On the Brink of Death

An Ying fought a powerful weird, then nearly died after breaking a hidden rule against resting for more than five minutes. After surviving another attack, he hesitated over a valuable card until Moonlit Night appeared and warned him not to reach for it.

  • An Ying learned that blood let the claw-hammer weird locate its target, killed it, and obtained the ten of diamonds.
  • An Ying woke after resting to two rule violations and used the Heart of Rules to dispel the weirds attacking him.
  • An Ying realized he had triggered a hidden rule by resting for more than five minutes and forced himself to recover using frequent alarms.
  • An Ying fought off the Toddler Weirds and found the nine of spades, but hesitated before taking it.
  • Moonlit Night appeared above An Ying and warned him that knowing when to be satisfied was wise.

Ch. 36Gecko and Spring

An Ying met Moonlit Night, who offered to help him with a dangerous nine of spades card. Meanwhile, Sheng Qingqiao remained protected in Lucky Twenty-One by a mysterious woman in white, whose rose thorns killed anomalies and turned them into cards.

  • An Ying startled Moonlit Night with his bamboo umbrella, and Moonlit Night revealed he had been hiding above him.
  • Moonlit Night asked about An Ying’s battered condition and offered to help him deal with the nine of spades.
  • In Lucky Twenty-One, players stayed trapped inside a barrier of rose thorns surrounding the woman in white.
  • The woman in white called an anomaly a traitor after it touched a thorn, and the vines drained it until it became a playing card.
  • Sheng Qingqiao denied the other players’ teasing claims that he had a relationship with the woman, explaining that she had approached him and offered protection.

Ch. 37Liar's Tavern

Bai Yang kept Tao Yuan and the other players trapped on his plush rabbit while it fought Weirds, as Moonlit Night left An Ying behind and revealed his plan to kill him for points. After the second death-chase round ended, An Ying and the few survivors discussed a candy that had protected one woman from a Hearts Weird, leading An Ying to suspect Bai Yang was connected to a hidden organization.

  • Bai Yang refused Tao Yuan’s request to let the players down from the rabbit, which continued crushing and swatting Weirds while carrying them.
  • An Ying confronted Moonlit Night for refusing to help, but Moonlit Night disappeared from the game room and went outside the instance.
  • Moonlit Night drew his saber and said he intended to kill An Ying to gain enough points for his Master.
  • The second death-chase round ended, and An Ying and a small group of survivors regrouped after more than half the players had died.
  • A woman said a candy had protected her from a Hearts Weird, and An Ying connected its effect to Bai Yang and resolved to investigate him and Moonlit Night.

Ch. 38The Second Half

After the first half ended, the host brought new players into the casino and began a high-card contest in which winners could steal their opponents’ cards. An Ying was freed from his restraints and waited as players began attacking one another for cards.

  • An Ying returned to the first-floor hall, where the host announced that players without cards had lost their eligibility for the second half.
  • The host brought in new players, who had to pay a price to receive cards; one newcomer cut off his own arm and obtained one.
  • The high-card contest began, and the host warned that players left without cards after the first round would become NPCs.
  • An Ying noticed Moonlit Night was missing and saw that injured, unarmed players were vulnerable targets.
  • A tall, gaunt man shot a one-armed player dead and took his cards, prompting the other players to grow tense.

Ch. 39Cheating

An Ying stopped the players from trying to seize his high-ranking cards by warning that stealing them would violate the arena’s ban on cheating. As the countdown continued, he considered how the rules and the unseen jokers might affect the game.

  • A player revealed that An Ying had high-ranking cards, prompting several people to propose taking or destroying them.
  • An Ying reminded the group that stealing cards would count as cheating, which could bring a death sentence, and warned that he could hold out for ten minutes.
  • Most players sat back, but seven people without cards considered attacking injured players instead; one then began plotting to steal a card with an invisibility-granting uncanny object.
  • An Ying realized the kneeling NPCs and the card-holding NPC were also watching for cheating, making unnoticed theft difficult.
  • With seven minutes left to choose a card, An Ying reasoned that the arena might contain one standard deck and wondered where the two jokers were.

Ch. 40Looting Playing Cards

An Ying won his first card match with the queen of spades and refused to loot his opponent’s seven of diamonds. Chen Xiu then defeated the cheating guest 44, looted his cards, and the first round ended with the players learning that losing a match could cost them their lives.

  • An Ying submitted his queen of spades and was matched against guest 30, whose card was a seven of diamonds.
  • Guest 30 died after refusing to reveal his card before the countdown ended, and An Ying won the match but refused to loot the seven of diamonds.
  • Chen Xiu faced guest 44 and revealed her six of hearts against his seven of spades.
  • The host exposed guest 44’s cheating and killed him, allowing Chen Xiu to loot his seven of spades and the leftover seven of diamonds.
  • The first round ended after half an hour, and the players understood that those who lost their only card could die.

Ch. 41Moonlit Night Again

An Ying learned that played cards could not be reused, won his second match through the suit-ranking rule, and began considering how card suits related to the Weirds' abilities. A sudden attack tore open the game venue, and Moonlit Night appeared with a gigantic rabbit.

  • An Ying discovered that his queen of spades had already been used and warned the other players that cards could only be played once.
  • An Ying played the jack of hearts against number eight's jack of clubs, and won because hearts outranked clubs.
  • An Ying considered the ranking and abilities of the four suits' Weirds as he returned to his seat.
  • A tremendous roar sliced away the stories above the venue, exposing the game to the sky.
  • Moonlit Night appeared at the breach, greeted An Ying, and introduced a gigantic rabbit.

Ch. 42The Rabbit Swallowed the Moon

Bai Yang’s giant plush rabbit swallowed the blood moon, and Moonlit Night destroyed the rabbit and shattered the moon to retrieve a silver joker card. The game resumed, while An Ying suspected the moon had been the eerie behind the instance and noticed a rare ace of spades in a new match.

  • Bai Yang controlled his giant plush rabbit as it moved away from the players and eeries, then opened its mouth and swallowed the blood moon.
  • Moonlit Night explained that the rabbit could not digest the moon, then cut through the rabbit and shattered the moon into fragments.
  • Moonlit Night picked up a silver joker card from the shattered moon while Bai Yang searched among the fur for his damaged rabbit.
  • The host NPC resumed the game, and An Ying wondered whether the moon had been the eerie behind the instance and whether Moonlit Night had failed to kill it.
  • An Ying saw Player No. 11 holding the ace of spades during a new match and was surprised by the rare card.

Ch. 43The Bizarre Identity Card

An Ying watched a deadly card game reveal that players could not hold more than four cards, then faced a woman claiming to have the ace of diamonds. Elsewhere, Sheng Qingqiao learned that Flower Language belonged to the same organization as Bai Yang and Moonlit Night, and she suggested he already knew humans and entities could coexist.

  • Guest No. 16 lost to No. 11's ace of spades, and No. 11 was swallowed by the entity that emerged from the ten of hearts he had plundered.
  • A player revealed that holding more than four cards triggered a death rule, and An Ying survived the third round as the field shrank to six.
  • An Ying entered the fourth round with the king of diamonds, and his opponent immediately claimed to hold the ace of diamonds.
  • Flower Language killed the host and other NPCs before the blackjack game could begin, leaving Sheng Qingqiao and the others unable to start or leave.
  • Sheng Qingqiao asked Flower Language about Bai Yang, Moonlit Night, and her organization, and she said Bai Yang was weak, Moonlit Night was strong, and she was with them.
  • Flower Language told Sheng Qingqiao that he already knew entities and humans could coexist, causing his smiling expression to turn cold.

Ch. 44Doubt? Believe?

Tao Yuan kept winning at Liar’s Tavern while stalling for time after Bai Yang left, and An Ying realized the High Card game’s rules made survival impossible. When he challenged the host, the players shifted to pretending they were merely criticizing the game, leaving the host confronted but not yet openly defied.

  • Tao Yuan used a bluff to make Guest No. 15 believe her, then successfully doubted his card and handed him the gun after he lost.
  • An Ying and a woman concluded that the High Card rules forced both the winner and loser to die in the fourth round.
  • An Ying asked the host to pause the game and pointed out that its rules seemed flawed.
  • The host’s appearance changed as the room turned ominous, and the woman covered their challenge by complaining that the game was dull and its deck seemed incomplete.

Ch. 45Pause

An Ying, Mei Long, and four other players challenged the host of the death-game instance to summon the boss, then joined forces to seek a perfect clearance. Mei Long shared her memories of a real casino’s brutal underground crimes, and Wang Xiaoxiao suspected the strange beings were its victims.

  • An Ying and the others pressured the host to consult the boss, and he left while they regrouped.
  • An Ying and Mei Long introduced themselves, and the other four players shared their names and backgrounds.
  • Wang Xiaoxiao argued that they needed a perfect clearance to survive, and An Ying explained that they had to uncover and resolve the instance’s underlying story.
  • Mei Long recounted how her friend was lured into a casino, murdered, and found with her organs removed, and described the casino’s underground exploitation and her own investigation.
  • Wang Xiaoxiao suggested that the strange beings in the gambling house might be the victims of those crimes.

Ch. 46Moonlit Night's Help

An Ying learned that the different Weirds had conflicting roles and might be turned against one another, while Moonlit Night arrived and gave him a risky plan to exploit the rules. The card game against the hidden Weird master began with An Ying preparing to carry out that plan.

  • An Ying reasoned that the Weirds represented victims, accomplices, guests, and rule enforcers, and suggested searching the streets if the Weirds stopped hunting them.
  • Mei Long reassured the group that his ace of diamonds was the highest card, and Moonlit Night arrived after swallowing the moon.
  • Moonlit Night told An Ying he would help only him, then gave him a battered half-rabbit and explained that An Ying had to make the Weird master cheat before its restraints could be broken.
  • Moonlit Night gave An Ying four new playing cards and warned him not to die; An Ying returned to the others and said he would succeed.
  • The host brought the pale, featureless Weird to the stage, and it asked the group to choose a player for one decisive round.

Ch. 47Cheating with the Little Joker

An Ying used Fang Yi’s creepy item to swap a little joker into the anomaly’s hand and won the card match by exposing its rule-breaking. The enraged anomaly attacked the group directly, and Moonlit Night stood to fight back.

  • An Ying faced the anomaly in a high-card match while his teammates watched and prepared to support his plan.
  • An Ying used Brat's Photograph to swap a card into the anomaly’s hand, then revealed the three of spades he had received.
  • The anomaly revealed the little joker An Ying had swapped into its hand, and An Ying accused it of cheating and declared his victory.
  • The host stayed silent rather than rule on whether its master had cheated.
  • The anomaly unleashed a direct attack, surrounding the group with dark energy and familiar anomalies as An Ying’s bamboo umbrella blocked the first strike.
  • Moonlit Night stood and challenged the anomaly for breaking its word.

Ch. 48The Bomb

An Ying outwitted the eerie entity in a card game with a bomb, but it expelled him and the other survivors into the dungeon’s daytime street instead of letting them escape. The group gathered to identify the street’s rules, then a startled Wang Xiaoxiao stumbled into a middle-aged woman.

  • An Ying challenged the eerie entity’s claim that it had not cheated, then agreed to restart the card game under its improvised rules.
  • The eerie entity drew the little joker, but An Ying played four twos from the rabbit and argued that his bomb beat it.
  • The eerie entity raised its blade, but An Ying and the other survivors were transported out of the game and onto the dungeon’s daytime street.
  • An Ying, Wang Xiaoxiao, Mei Long, and Fang Yi exchanged what they knew about the street, including rules against nighttime visitors and littering.
  • Wang Xiaoxiao noticed movement behind her, stumbled into An Ying, and startled a middle-aged woman who shouted at her.

Ch. 49The Daytime Street Rules

An Ying and his companions learned the daytime rules of the street outside the underground casino and reunited with Bai Yang and Tao Yuan. Meanwhile, Lin Nieran discovered that the playing-card uncanny objects he had collected were worth less without the jokers.

  • An Ying found the daytime street rules, which warned newcomers to fit in, avoid flames, and call security about moving weights or children.
  • A stallholder told An Ying's group that the street surrounded Y City's underground casino and that escape was impossible once inside.
  • Mei Long and Wang Xiaoxiao left to search for their teammates, while An Ying used a disk to locate Bai Yang nearby.
  • Bai Yang returned his battered rabbit to An Ying, and Tao Yuan learned that Moonlit Night had left the instance using his ability to break boundaries.
  • Tao Yuan invited Bai Yang to search for their teammates, and Bai Yang asked where he could find fabric and cotton to repair his rabbit.
  • Lin Nieran learned that the 52 playing-card uncanny objects were worth 30,000 because the deck was missing its big and little jokers.

Ch. 50Reunion

Lin Nieran sent Moonlit Night to the Lily Weird Zone to earn points while he watched the livestream, spent his remaining points on items for the puppeteer, and learned that his Fame had passed 100,000. In the instance, Bai Yang reunited with Tao Yuan and An Ying, then encountered Qin Rang at a clothing stall.

  • Lin Nieran told Moonlit Night to hunt Weirds in Cloud City’s Lily Weird Zone rather than pursue the big joker, and Moonlit Night left.
  • Lin Nieran discussed his past and his personalities with the masked young man, then asked 007 about dead hosts and checked his rising Fame balance.
  • Lin Nieran used two ten-draws, received a snow weather card, and spent his remaining points on a Teddy Bear Doll and a Parasitic Spirit for the puppeteer.
  • Bai Yang sensed Lin Nieran’s items arrive while he browsed fabric with An Ying, and Qin Rang bargained for custom clothing nearby.
  • Bai Yang reunited with Tao Yuan and An Ying, and the group shared their experiences after Qin Rang joined them.
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